7 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Death

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on death

133. Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

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144. The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

224. He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

229. It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!

233. If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.

259. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

298. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.